One thing keeps me wondering, which is that why your server has C-class IP instead of A-class? This is propably the reason why it gets listed last after every A-class IP like your own.
-ics J. Miribel kirjoitti: > Hi all, hi TC, > > I agree all players from europe play on our servers but this is the case > because both you and I have big servers... > On our CSS 64 ppl server, 55% of the players are from our country > (france) and on the 45% left 40 are from country around france: UK, > belgium, deutchland, spain etc... Eastern europe user won't connect > thats for sure ;) > > > BUT: in my cas, our server shows up realllllyyyy late in server list, > all because the server list query will send me servers with IP near > mine, and my personnal IP starts with "82.xxx.xxx.xxx", the server is > "194.xxx.xxx.xxx"... My server is then full of servers from all over > Europe before I get servers from my own country.. This server filter is > out of date... > > There are at least 3 kinds of players: > Those who look for a ffa server with a decent ping (and those won't play > far from homeland) > Those who likes to play on special/modded servers (those we both welcome > everyday on our big servers TC) > Those who are there for scrimm (and they already know the IP of the > server they'll play on) > > All I'm saying is that Valve should better filtrate the servers IP and > the server list should be sent depending on player's IP's COUNTRY / > Server IP's COUNTRY instead of player's IP / server's IP. > Why ? Because RIPE / ARIN / LACNIC and other RIRs won't allocate subnets > by country anymore, therefore the server listing is done the wrong way ;) > > > Best regards > > TC a écrit : > >> " Do you really think UK players will play on Italian servers? Man they have >> 1000+ decent servers in their country, they won't event think about >> connecting to one..." >> >> Players tend to come from all over the place for servers in Europe which can >> be seen if you geo-ip profile your own players. Below is an example snapshot >> of players on our UKCS TF2 servers from yesterday. As you can see, they come >> from a wide area and pings stay low with good connectivity. >> >> Moment in time snapshot: >> >> http://images.ukcs.net/10002/tf2world.JPG >> >> I think prioritising the list winding outwards from the location of the >> server would be a good thing, but not to stop at a country's boundary. The >> master list could hold long/lat in the record, and then it’s a simple bit of >> maths to work out distance between two co-ords allowing sorting by distance. >> Ping is an approximation of that which they may think is better - they'd say >> its not distance its ping that’s important. However, during a full server >> list refresh the pings obtained tend to be totally wrong due to the overload >> on the clients connection doing all the pings. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J. Miribel >> Sent: 24 March 2008 13:16 >> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list >> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Server redirect >> >> I still wonder why you can't use a dns instead of an IP... We should >> have a cvar like sv_favname... >> >> Lets say its blank by default -> favorites menu memorizes the IP of the >> server >> When server admin sets something in like sv_favname "host.domain.com", >> then favorites memorizes the dns name... >> >> On the same kind of issue I still wonder why VALVe still uses their out >> of date server listing stuff... I have to wait 5 mins to see half of the >> servers of my country... I really think VALVe should geolocalize the >> player's IP and send the server list depending on the players country... >> I've been using goelocalization databases for quite a while now, thats >> really easy to implement... Too bad its not done already.. Do you really >> think UK players will play on Italian servers? Man they have 1000+ >> decent servers in their country, they won't event think about connecting >> to one... >> >> Best regards >> Julian >> >> Andreas Grimm a écrit : >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> valve is still working on the function, that server admins can change ip >>> addresses of gameservers without losing them in the steam favorites ... >>> >>> my tip: change the servername and post the new ip address ... and add >>> >>> >> server >> >> >>> messages, for example with mani's ad's messages, every 30 seconds, that >>> >>> >> the >> >> >>> server is out of date and it has a new ip address ... >>> >>> i have done this a lot of times and it worked very well ... >>> >>> in css there are possibilies to pop up a dialog to ask a player if he >>> >>> >> wants >> >> >>> to connect to another server ... but im not sure how it works, never tried >>> that ... but a plugin could make it: check www.sourcemod.net >>> >>> good luck >>> andreas >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eirik >>> Nilssen >>> Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 3:30 PM >>> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list >>> Subject: [hlds_linux] Server redirect >>> >>> >>> Hi guys, hope you can help me out here. >>> >>> After experiencing a lot of problems with some of our servers hosted by >>> >>> >> one >> >> >>> of our communitys sponsors, we have decided to host them ourself. The >>> problem is, that these servers are our most popular. Changing IP on a >>> popular server is always risky business, so I wish to keep the old servers >>> up a month or two, but making it redirect all traffic - with a message to >>> the user about whats happening. >>> >>> Have been browsing the net all day, but all links regarding "redirect" >>> concerns file download. >>> >>> All input would be gratly appreciated! >>> >>> Best Regards >>> Eirik S. Nilssen >>> _________________________________________________________________ >>> Søk fra enhver webside med kraftig beskyttelse. 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